The 1980s was a great decade for movies, especially action movies starring celebrities we know and love today, from Tom Cruise to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sylvester Stallone.
If you're gearing up for a marathon of 80s classic action films by yourself or with friends and family, an online forum has recently given excellent movie suggestions to get you started.
Although Big Trouble in Little China was a commercial failure, it garnered positive reviews. It became a cult classic when it was released on home video.
Oliver Stone wrote and directed Platoon from the lens of his experiences as a U.S. infantryman in the Vietnam War to counter the vision of war depicted in John Wayne's The Green Berets, which was released 18 years prior.
They Live is regarded as one of Carpenter's best films. It serves as social commentary on the economic policies of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, from whom the term “Reaganomics” was born.